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...National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued official guidelines on Monday governing the federal funding of human embryonic-stem-cell research, four months after President Obama signed an executive order overturning the longstanding federal...
...guidelines allow NIH to fund scientifically worthy research using responsibly derived human embryonic stem cells," Dr. Raynard Kington, acting director of the agency, said in a telebriefing with reporters on Monday...
Starting Tuesday, all U.S. stem-cell researchers must follow the NIH guidelines in creating new stem-cell lines in order to receive federal support. For all lines created before Tuesday, researchers may now receive federal funds if the creation of their stem-cell lines adhered to the spirit, if not the letter, of the new regulations...
...women is a moral, not to mention legal, minefield, which is why they advocate starting small by analyzing the amount of medication circulating in the bloodstream of pregnant women who are already taking prescription drugs out of necessity. A program launched in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doing a few studies of this kind in four cities - Galveston, Texas; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Seattle; and D.C. - where flyers placed in obstetricians' offices seek pregnant women taking prescription drugs who are willing to stay in a hospital for at least 12 hours hooked up to an IV, ideally once...
Researchers could substantially broaden their data pool by piggybacking on the NIH-funded National Children's Study, which is enrolling 100,000 women who are or plan to become pregnant, with the goal of tracking the development of children from before birth to adulthood. Tack on some questions and blood draws and suddenly you've captured a huge number of potential subjects. But expanding the study costs money. Second Wavers like Georgetown bioethicist Maggie Little have begun searching for members of Congress who are willing to take up their cause. "This issue could make somebody on the Hill a hero...